Various Uses of Ball Bearing Rollers in Industry

When it comes to a bearing, it is one of the most essential components for it promotes rotational movement of the machine elements, with less friction. Using it, you can shift loads between the components such as axles, wheels and shafts. By supporting high rotational speeds and minimizing heat, noise and energy consumption, a bearing, especially a rolling one, offers a high precision.

Some Intrinsic Features of Roller Bearings

Ball Bearing Rollers

The roller bearings are known for their cylindrical roller design to help make line contact with raceway washers. The following are inherent features of ball bearing rollers, which are classified into radial and thrust bearings depending on the direction of the load they chiefly handle.

• Can handle heavy loads, either radial or axial or a combination of both, in one direction or both directions.
• These types of bearings come with a cage to accommodate heavy loads at a high or moderate speed.
• Some types of ball bearing rollers like cylindrical roller bearings can handle axial displacement, while the others like a spherical roller thrust bearing has self-aligning feature to accommodate misalignment.
• The rolling bearings have special roller profile to minimize edge stresses, which in turn give long service life.
• The separable design of this roller bearings helps mounting and dismounting of raceways from the case assembly, which initiates maintenance inspections.

Uses and Applications of Ball Bearing Rollers in Industry

The uses of ball bearing rollers are enormous in industry; nevertheless, it predominantly depends on the type and design of the bearing.

Automotive Industry: There is high demand for different types of bearings in this industry. Some common types of automobile bearing are tapered roller trust bearings, which are designed to handle heavy thrust, as well as radial loads. The load versatility of this bearing promotes it use mainly in the wheels of cars and other heavy automobiles. During the oscillation, these bearings have the capability to transfer the heavy radial loads to the contact surface of the ring raceways, thus minimizing thrust at high speed.

The variants used are the needle roller thrust bearing, thrust ball bearings, and so on.

Heavy Machine-Making Industry:  Industries manufacturing heavy machines such as earthmovers, jaw crushers, mining machine, etc., use special bearings like the spherical roller thrust bearings, tapered roller bearings, spherical plain bearings, and more.

Medical Industry: The use of ball bearing rollers are also highly found in medical industry, which manufactures various types of highly sophisticated equipment.

Agriculture Industry: This also find the use of cylindrical roller bearings, spherical plain bearings and tapered roller bearings in the use of various types of machines used for cultivation and harvesting.

With the use of ball bearing rollers in varied applications, the list is still endless.